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Fiddler on the Roof, Bock
D: Christian Thausing
C: Marius Burkert
A suitcase full of a long lost world

homas Essl as the butcher Lazar Wolf, whose honor has been offended, Johann Wolfgang Lampl as the sergeant and David McShane as the rabbi, as well as the dancers with their artistic performances as highlights of the wedding celebration (choreography Evamaria Mayer). At the wedding party, Anatevka is already in the process of dissolving: the back of the suitcase has broken off. Before the stage turns, you can only see the hustle and bustle through a veil. A reference to the breaks in tradition that can be stated: broken wedding promises, love marriages and – as a climax – the outrageous, inappropriate dancing. At the end, when the chorus announces the end of Anatevka and the farewell, the suitcase that has kept the residents together for so long and has given them a frame and thus security has long since become a sad ruin.

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18 October 2020onlinemerker.comManfred A. Schmid

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